Russia
Tuesday 21 May 2024
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![Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs]()
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
"Russian Ambassador to Mozambique Surikov suddenly died in Maputo. Preliminary version - stroke. "
Read more...At the time of the Russian foreign ministry’s statement, the ambassador’s body was still in the hospital morgue in Mozambique’s capital Maputo with Russian embassy officials prohibiting medics from examining the body and refusing the police investigation. -
![Vlaimir Putin]()
Vlaimir Putin
Russia's president
“Our cooperation in world affairs is one of the main stabilizing factors on the international stage. Together, we defend the principles of fairness and the democratic world order based on the multipolar realities and international law.”
Read more...Wanted for war crimes, Putin relies on China to wage Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine and undermine the rules-based global order. -
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Anatoly Antonov
Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
“…according to statistics, the vast majority of computer attacks in the world occur from the territory of the United States.”
Read more...Antonov manipulated statistical data omitting key distinctions that point to Russia as the world’s largest sponsor of political cybercrime. -
![Department of Foreign Military Affairs of the Ministry of National Defense, North Korea]()
Department of Foreign Military Affairs of the Ministry of National Defense, North Korea
“The U.S. administration, which had kept itself aloof from the delivery of long-range missiles, saying that it did not encourage Ukraine's strike on the Russian mainland, has betrayed more clearly its true colors as a harasser of peace, aggravating war by providing Ukraine with such missiles. This time it has adopted such a mean policy as offering even long-range missiles for attacking the Russian territory to their lackeys.”
Read more...Washington has made clear that Kyiv cannot use long-range missiles to strike within Russian territory. U.S. said Russia’s targeting and killing of at least 14 civilians in Ukraine with North Korea-supplied long-range missiles motivated Biden’s decision to help Ukraine’s defense by sending ATACMS. -
![Russian Embassy in South Africa]()
Russian Embassy in South Africa
“With all that, Zelenskyy regime will soon be provided with additional $61B financial aid from the U.S. Combating corruption and human rights violations, Western style."
Read more...The U.S. helps Ukraine defend itself from the Russian aggression. Washington is also actively assisting Kyiv’s efforts in developing democratic governance and bolstering civil society. -
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Wang Wenbin
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“On Ukraine, China’s position has been just and objective. The United States keeps making groundless accusations over the normal trade and economic exchanges between China and Russia... China firmly rejects this."
Read more...There is significant evidence documenting how China has gone beyond “normal trade” to supply military equipment and components to Russia. In addition, China's Defense Minister pledged Chinese support for Russia in the war and expanded military cooperation. -
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Rosatom
Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation
“The deposits of JSC Dalur are located on a hill and away from the water. The flood did not affect them. There is no threat of flooding …”
Read more...Satellite images of flooded areas in the Kurgan region compared with the maps of Dobrovolnoye uranium deposits show part of Rosatom’s uranium wells covered in water. Environmentalists believe that the radioactive solution has been flowing into the Tobol River. -
![Lord Bebo]()
Lord Bebo
X influencer
“Russian delegation in the UN Security Council left the meeting before Israel's speech.”
Read more...Russia’s top diplomats walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting when Israel’s representative took the stage. -
![Evghenia Guțul]()
Evghenia Guțul
Gagauzian Governor
"…I and many residents, and even the majority of residents of Gagauzia, and even of Moldova, are against Moldova joining the European Union.”
Read more...Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for the nation's accession to the European Union. -
![Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)]()
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
“…American private military companies, under the guidance of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, have begun to recruit Mexican and Colombian drug cartels' members, who are serving their sentence in American prisons, to take part in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of Kyiv’s degrading regime.”
Read more...Contrary to Russia’s well-documented state-backed campaign to enlist criminals and foreigners to fight in Ukraine, Russian foreign intelligence provided no evidence to support its allegations against the United States. -
![Sergey Lavrov]()
Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
"Recently, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko adopted a resolution prohibiting any cultural or educational events in Russian from being held in Kyiv. Even in everyday life, if anyone speaks Russian at school during breaks, or addresses a shop assistant in Russian, they can face administrative charges.”
Read more...In July 2023, the Kyiv City Council introduced a moratorium on the use of “Russian-language cultural products,” such as books, songs, and films, in the city. While people are permitted to speak Russian in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, as of 2023, most Ukrainians spoke only Ukrainian in daily life. -
![Olexander Scherba]()
Olexander Scherba
Ukrainian diplomat, former ambassador to Austria
“In #russia, a bridge near Smolensk falls on a strategically important railway. Sad. “#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsCollapsing”
Read more...While a train did collapse in western Russia on April 8, footage being widely shared on X is from a 2018 incident.
